The Beers We Tried Our panel of 25 tasters tried four different brands of beer: Budweiser, Heineken, Sierra Nevada and Sapporo, in both cans and bottles. We poured the beers into cups for tasting so no one could identify them. Our tasters compared the beers side by side and wrote down which they thought was canned and which they preferred.

Our results were pretty surprising: tasters preferred the canned beer in 3 out of the 4 cases (though overall, tasters only preferred it by a hair, edging out bottled beer with 51 percent of the vote). On average, 54 percent of testers correctly identified the canned beer, meaning it's not as easy to tell the difference as our tasters may have thought. Check out out all the results in the slideshow below.